An International Media personality and presenter, George Chukwu, has
revealed some details surrounding an alleged deal that led to the
release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi
Kanu, by the Nigeria Government.
In a Statement to NigerianEye from Toronto, Canada, the renowned
presenter with Canada’s Afroglobal Television and Vice-President of the
Nigeria Canadian Association (NCA) said he got reliable information from
sources in the deep background from Aso Rock how the IPOB leader was
arrested during the military exercise in his hometown along with his
parents in 2017 and held in Bonny, Rivers State under solitary
confinement and released after the former Director-General, DG, of the
Department of State Services, DSS, Moman Daura, working together with
the former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, convinced President
Muhammadu Buhari and Abba Kyari to recruit him to work for the state.

Chukwu said, “I gathered from a very senior security official in Abuja
that Nnamdi Kanu, his parents and driver were apprehended by the Army
DMI operatives and initially taken to Ohafia on September16th of 2017.
He was later removed from the military facility and taken to a Naval
yard in Rivers State. His parents were held at Ohafia before they were
transferred to Abuja and kept in a DSS safe house on Kwameh Nkrumah
Street, Asokoro in Abuja.

“According to my source, Nnamdi Kanu was wounded when he was arrested;
he had a broken rib and was limping. The DMI kept the information about
his arrest secret to manage the outcome of the infamous Operation Python
Dance the army initiated which culminated to his being arrested.

The FG was worried that information leaking about his arrest would
trigger off protests and possible riots throughout the South East and
South-South. Their fear stems from the fa that Asari Dokubo had aligned
with Nnamdi Kanu and the FG did not want the Niger Delta militants to
start blowing pipelines again. They already had the Avengers that were
causing enough trouble for them.

“When the case Nnamdi Kanu was answering was called and the court was
told he was nowhere to be found and following the Army HQ saying they
did not know where Nnamdi Kanu was, it was decided that the information
became top secret. It was at this time that the British Government made
enquiry about Nnamdi Kanu who holds a British citizenship and the
Attorney General and the Foreign Affairs Minister assured them that he
was safe. Nnamdi Kanu sneaked into the country in 2015 with both his
British passport and his Nigeria passport which enabled the Nigeria
government to arrest him as he is also her citizen. Had Nnamdi Kanu had
only his British passport he would have been safe. This was the argument
the FG through the Attorney General offered to the UK diplomats and
they kept cool.

“Towards June 2018, Nnamdi Kanu became very ill and at a point took to
hunger strike but was well taken care of. The doctor that was seeing him
is called Dr. Obegi from Kogi. Nnamdi Kanu was said to have refused
being given any injection which worsened his condition. He told his
handlers he was afraid he would be killed the way Musa Yar Adua was
allegedly killed. In all the months he was incarcerated he did not
break. On the day that the World Cup final was played, his parents were
brought to visit him.

“The DSS had been working his parents and they asked Nnamdi to reveal
the funding of IPOB and how the money transfers were done. You remember,
there was a time the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave a
press conference saying that IPOB had foreign sponsors from Spain; that
information many others were given to the DSS by Nnamdi Kanu. His
parents meeting him was a struck of luck as he became weakened and
agreed to reveal all that the authorities wanted from him. But he
demanded that his parents be released.

“At this point of negotiation, the Federal Government brought in the
former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu and he was contacted by
Abba Kyari to get into the negotiation since he knew most of the
sponsors of IPOB. Kalu went to see Kanu on in early August but the
meeting did not yield any dividend as Kanu maintained his demand that
his parents be released.

“The former Governor was said to have asked the government to use Nnamdi
Kanu’s parents as leverage or collateral knowing that his negotiations
with Kanu never ever gets through.

“It was during this time that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in
the Hague delivered its verdict on their investigation into the
activities of the Nigeria Army and concluded that they committed grave
human rights abuses including killing innocent people. That development
cut short the plan to release Nnamdi Kanu’s parents.

”It was at this time that it was said the former DSS boss, Daura, came
into the picture and told Nnamdi Kanu that he would have a new brief. He
made it clear that his parents would be held while he would continue
with a message of election boycott as the IPOB were canvassing. Nnamdi
Kanu was told in specific words that he was being recruited to propagate
the election boycott in the South East and South South knowing that
these regions will not vote for President Muhammadu Buhari.

“It was Daura that decided to have Nnamdi Kanu released to be flown to
Israel after a deal was reached. Nnamdi Kanu was removed from Bonny and
taken to Enugu airport from where he was transported to Abuja and
connected to Israel.

“This is why Nnamdi Kanu has been pushing for election boycott because
he knows that this will affect Atiku Abubakar and Pater Obi so that
Buhari will win. He has kept quiet about how he left the country, only
saying that Biafra Intelligence took him away. He has not mentioned
where his parents are and has been doing everything to make sure he
keeps his own part of the deal which was to be on till after the
elections. My source said that Nnamdi Kanu was told to act like he used
to but when he did the Jibril taunt and it went viral he was reminded of
the pact he had with the government that is why he lately took to
Atiku.”